Out of the Rain
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1644213869
ISBN-13
9781644213865
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Imprint
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 16th, 2024
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
246 grams
Dimensions
13.90 x 21.00 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Ksh 2,700.00
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Out of the Rain takes us into the growing world of the homeless in the United States, particularly in San Francisco. Here we read their powerful stories, which examine not just poverty but bottom-of-the-barrel destitution, and in many cases self-destruction. Tom, who runs a social services agency, doesn''t play by a book of rules as much as try to bring some humanity to his work. Then there is Walter, a homeless man who can''t save himself from booze but is ready to help others. Throughout this novel told from various perspectives, the reader is introduced in intimate detail to the lives of social services workers trying to find open shelter beds and simultaneously navigating federal programs. Homeless men and women are battling sobriety and addiction and simply trying to find sustainable work and decent housing. Based on the author''s experience working with homeless people in San Francisco as a social services worker in the 1980s and 1990s, this novel vividly takes the reader into the heads of combat veterans, junkies, prostitutes and the unemployed. J. Malcolm Garcia left social services to pursue journalism so he could write about the people he worked with and share their stories-and humanity-with the broader public.
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